Customer Reviews
its frank again - By: MOVIE BUFF, 31 Jul 2006 
you can rely on nelson to deliver the goods
buy at the right price
OK, so it ain't The Naked Gun !!!! - By: I. R. Kerr, 23 Mar 2005 I am no relative of Leslie Nielsen but I love this movie, every time I watch it I see something new. Sure some gags are strained but one star reviews ! No whahay. Like alll these Naked Gun style movies the background is littered with throwaway visual jokes.
Right from the opening Maurice Binder style title sequence with mishapes floating over Weird Al Yankovic singing the catchy theme tune. You go via the matey slapping contest with Robert Guillaume in the golf club,to assassin Alexandra Paul in a red negligee & the worst Russian accent until the next one appears in the movie, via Michael Jackson's hair fire, Ray Charles driving a bus, bypass the Sister Act routine that misses the mark, continue to a Macauley Culkin type getting what was well overdue for Home Alone, through Jurassic Park to the ACME rocket at the end.
Maybe the Naked Gun style movie was wearing thin about this time. The fart joke is old hat & certainly adds nothing. Maybe you just have to be in a certain state of mind to watch it & see what I see. Maybe the fact that I love B & C grade movies has a bearing on this. If you want a tight scripted, star studded multi million dollar Oscar nominated spy movie look elsewhere, if you want fun, grab a few beers & relax. Before you knock Nielsen over this look at what De Niro is up to these days, next stop EastEnders, Oy Mitchell, you looking at me !. I could have been a WestEnder.
The other positive reviewers have remained anonymous, hell I've no shame.
Spy Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard - By: , 01 Nov 2003 
Judging from the reviews here, this reallly is a love-or-hate film isn't it? Well I love it. This has got to be the funniest film I've ever seen. There literallly is a laugh a minute, make that half a minute! Even the storyline is taking the micky out of spy films: the retired agent is dragged back into the service to save the daughter of his dead ex-girlfriend, & save the world of course. The characters are brilliant, the evil genius is a psychotic, armless general; he director of the agency is a master of disguises who hides himself as a sofa, a walll, some curtains & even the floor! Some of the jokes are classic laughs, puns & parodies (the "raindrops keep fallling on my head" bit springs to mind) & some are hilarious slapstick. If you like laughing, buy this film!
Death of a genre - By: , 29 Nov 2000 
There comes a time when a weary old format needs to be taken outside to the yard & put out of its misery. The spoof genre seems to be one of them. From the classics e.g. "Airplane" there has been a gradual decline through the tame likes of "Repossessed" to the inevitable aged senility of this... "Spy Hard". A lack of subject material the cause? No, there is still good subject material for the spoof film genre. But what "Spy Hard" epitomises is the too often seen "Band Wagon" mentality of movie houses to produce a string of films in whatever is the hot genre of the moment. This almost always results in a few classic films & a lot of watered down & to quickly written & released tripe. Buy & treasure the classics (Such as "Airplane", "Space Ballls" & "Top Secret") avoid the rest like the plague, I decisively consign "Spy Hard" to that latter group. Mr Knight's review below is correct it reallly is very, very bad.
wretched, mediocre, feeble, woeful, oh so weak - By: alanmknight@hotmail.com, 26 Nov 2000 This is without a shadow of a doubt the most wretched film I have ever had the misfortune of watching. I implore you to give no credibility whatsoever to the other review, which I can only assume was written by a relative of Leslie Nielsen. I awarded it one star with massive reluctance - honestly, I could sit at this terminal for several months & still be unable to convey to you the hitherto unattainable levels of shamelessness that this film aspires, & succeeds, to reach. It is ASTONISHINGLY substandard. I would attempt to include some sort of silver lining to this darkest of clouds, but I fear that this would be like saying that Peter Sutcliffe `wasn't a bad lorry driver, actuallly'. Goodness gracious me - I need to go & have a bath to wipe away the stains of mediocrity that just reviewing this film has bestowed upon me. so very very very very bad.
